Elementary School Children Poems

Kindergarten Teacher

  Kind when she shares her bologna sandwich.
 
  Imaginative when she has to use Q-tips to teach.
  
  Nurturing...

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She wore thick leggings
our childhood polio albatross
mass Sabin vaccine sauce
body snatcher ritual
fixed beautiful legs.

(In early elementary school she wore braces most of the way through...

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Having discussed it with many elementary educators
Critical Race Theory is NOT being taught in our schools
C.R.T. is buzzword used by right-wing radical agitators
Who are preaching...

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Letters

I write you all the time. 
I don't mail them... 
my letters, my words... anymore. 
They came back for a while, 
so I stopped. 
I...

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Uvalde a small town in Texas

Distance away from San Antonio

not well known about by many

In a fateful day Uvalde, Uvalde

Hits the news, media and nation

Tragedy...

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The elementary teachers praise Student C.
Student C is compliant, calm, competent and composed.
She is marvelous, wonderful, a favorite.
She wins awards and trophies, and I mean...

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What good memories living with our parents and grandparents Dr.Wolf and Dr.Erika,
My sons Kirk and Erik and my younger sister Antje and I all lived...

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Floor coverings were what I laid
To make a living for a while
Many things happened in that time
To cause me to have a big smile

A job...

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I remember when the little buggers
hit the elementary school -
the apologetic tone
of the school nurse
as she informed me by phone,
And the hate I felt
when I...

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...prized progeny well nigh impossible chore
haunted by priceless offspring, 
neither surviving 
   papa/ mama can never a door
not ever again hearing 
 ...

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Child's Play

Dug out thin dusty worms
In cemented elementary school sandbox
With white plastic spoon
Until then, forgot warms were a thing

In high school
Rain and wind
Brought plump snaky...

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As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the...

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Hi El,
Hopefully you grow up to adulthood,
Later you will know the correct whatever this world, 
Now you only know enough to play and play, Oh...

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Everything has changed in a jiffy
The sun is balmy, the grass is green
And no trace of winter can be seen.

I ventured out on my usual...

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December day

There are no words that we can say,
About the tragedy that happened on that December day.
When an elementary school came under attack
And all those...

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